Education

• PhD, History, University of British Columbia / Dissertation defended, April 2023 / Degree conferred, November 2023
• MA, History, Western Washington University / 2014
• BA, History and Cultural Studies, The Evergreen State College / 2006

Research Interests

• Environmental History
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
• American West
• Nineteenth and Twentieth Century US
• Science and Technology Studies

Awards

• Beverly Purrington/Richard White Western History Dissertation Prize / Western History Association / 2024
• Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Pre-Doctoral Fellowship / 2018-2020
• Killam-Donald N. Byers Memorial Prize / 2018
• UBC Four Year Fellowship / 2016-2018

Courses taught

• Lecturer, American Studies – Smith College
  AMS 205 Intro to Native American and Indigenous Studies
  FYS 188 Indigenous Peoples and the Environment: Myth and Reality
  AMS 215ir Indigenous Climate Resiliency
  AMS 215sc Indigenous Critiques of Settler Colonialism
  AMS 201 Intro to American Studies
  AMS 211 National Parks: Making American Nature
• Adjunct Faculty – Spokane Falls Community College
  HIST 105 Historical Roots of Contemporary Issues
  HIST 137 US History II 1865-Present
• Teaching Assistant – University of British Columbia
  HIST 237 History of the United States
  HIST 260 Science and Society in the Contemporary World
  HIST 106 Global Environmental History
  HIST 235 History of Canada
  HIST 325 Canada 1896-1945 Boom, Bust, and War
  HIST 432 International Relations of the Twentieth Century

Additional Training and Experience

• Fellow – Mellon Foundation Applied History Initiative with Patricia Limerick, University of Colorado, Boulder / May 2024
• Faculty Participant – Climate and Community Workshop, Spokane Falls Community College / May-June 2023
• Research Assistant – Dr. Eagle Glassheim, “Revitalizing Mining Landscapes and Communities” / 2021-2022
• Chair – History Graduate Student Association Burge Lecture Committee / 2018-2019

Conference Papers

• “‘To Make Ourselves Again a Great Nation’ Tenskwatawa West of the Mississippi,” Western History Association Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, October 23-27, 2024.
• “Volcanic Intracatastrophe: The 1980 Mt. St. Helens Eruption and the Interface of Human and Geologic Time,” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Eugene, Oregon, March 23-27, 2022.
• “‘Prophets and Dreamers, Who Used to Work in Secret are Becoming More Bold’: Indigenous Futurities, Settler Colonialism, and Environmental Change in Nineteenth-Century North America,” AHA Pacific Coast Branch Conference, August 11-13, 2021. (Online)
• “Settler Colonialism, Environmental Crisis, and Indigenous Prophecy on the Columbia Plateau, 1860-1890,” Pacific Northwest History Conference, October 20-23, 2020. (Online)
• “Indigenous Prophecy and the Promise of Ecological Repair: Confronting Environmental Change in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ohio Valley,” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Ottawa, ON, Canada, March 25-29, 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
• “Local Knowledge, Indigenous Geographies, and Settler Colonialism in Nineteenth Century Washington Territory,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, June 13-15, 2013.
• “Blockhouses as Domestic Spaces: Constructing Race and Nation in Nineteenth Century Washington Territory,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, April 13-14, 2012.
• “Indigenous Leaders, American Expansion, and the Re-Negotiation of Power at the Chehalis River Treaty Council,” University of Alabama Graduate Student History Conference on Power and Struggle, Tuscaloosa, AL, March 2-3, 2012.

Publications

• Sovereign Futures: Indigenous and Settler Prophecies in Nineteenth-Century American Northwests (book manuscript in preparation).
• Treaty Temporalities: Time, Eventfulness, and the Afterlives of Settler Colonial Failure, Western Historical Quarterly, (forthcoming, July 2025).
• Review of Paul Kane’s Travels in Indigenous North America: Writings and Art, Life and Times, by I.S. MacLaren, Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation Vol. 17 No. 2 (2024)
• Review of The River that Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish, by B.J. Cummings, Pacific Northwest Quarterly 112, No. 3 (Summer 2021).
• Review of Laid Waste!: The Culture of Exploitation in Early America, by John Lauritz Larson, American Nineteenth Century History 21, Issue 2 (May 2020).
• Review of Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters Who Fought Them in 1970s Vancouver, by Jean Walton, BC Studies 202 (June 2019).

Professional Associations

• Western History Association (WHA)
• American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)
• Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)